Press
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Interview on The Write Project with Matthew LeDrew (CHMR)
May 4, 2020
May 2020
Queen's Alumni Review
April 13, 2020
Bibliolore, blog of the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
February 13, 2020
Activa Magazine
February 6, 2020
Bibliolore, blog of the Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale
September 16, 2019
St. John's Morning Show (CBC Radio One)
July 22, 2019
St. John's Morning Show (CBC Radio One)
June 9, 2019
The Telegram
May 30, 2019
VOCM News
March 23, 2019
CBC Newfoundland and Labrador
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March 16, 2019
Weekend AM with Heather Barrett (CBC Radio One)
Literary Reviews
Publishers Weekly
December 5, 2005
Horror and folklore fans will welcome Jabberwocky, an eclectic collection of poems and short stories edited by Sean Wallace. Two of the highpoints are reimaginings of classic fairy tales, Ainsley Dicks's "In Grandmother's House" and Vera Nazarian's "Revulsion and the Beast." (Prime [www.primebooks.net], $10 paper ISBN 0-8095-5062-8)
Locus Looks at Short Fiction
November 2005
Richard Horton for Locus: The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Field, Issue 538, Vol. 55 No. 5
Sean Wallace has put together a brief anthology of weird fantastical stories (mostly quite short) and poetry, Jabberwocky. The stories are all by women, and so are almost all of the poems. I liked Sonya Taaffe’s “Shadowplay”, a brief intense picture of regret over lost love, and Ainsley Dicks’ “In Grandmother’s House”, an interesting reimagining of “Little Red Riding Hood”.
Summation 2005: Fantasy
Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant for The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2006: Nineteenth Annual Collection
The first issue of pocket-sized magazine Jabberwocky featured many authors familiar to readers of Prime Books: Sonya Taaffe, Holly Phillips, Vera Nazarian, Catherynne M. Valente, Yoon Ha Lee, Theodora Goss, Anna Tambour. We particularly enjoyed work by Catherynne M. Valente, Ainsley Dicks, and JoSelle Vanderhooft.
Jabberwocky edited by Sean Wallace
November 15, 2005
Aimee Poynter for Tangent Online: short fiction review
The final story, "In Grandmother's House" by Ainsley Dicks, is yet another fairy tale retelling, this time "Little Red Riding Hood." Though this is an often visited tale, Dicks manages to make it feel new by combining the grandmother and the wolf. This tale also contained wisps of Angela Carter. The only quibble I had with it was the timeline. The time the old woman spent as a wolf seemed too long for no one to have noticed she was gone. But overall, it is a minor point as far as the narrative is concerned, and I enjoyed the story.